Test 10 · ★★ · The internet and undersea cables

«why do they put computers in Iceland, no one lives there lol» What is a real reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, one · What happens: put, live, be · To what, where: computers, Iceland, real reason

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 37 «The internet and undersea cables» of the technology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 put	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 reason	advcl
6	computers	computer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 put	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Iceland	case
8	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lives	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lives	nsubj
12	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Iceland	acl:relcl
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 lives	advmod
14	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 put	discourse
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 reason	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 reason	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 reason	det
19	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 reason	amod
20	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	put in a quote	present · do-support	they	computers	Iceland	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent computer=Theme in iceland=Destination
2	live in a quote	present	no one	Iceland not said here	there	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme iceland=Location
3	is a	present		a real reason		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Data travels much faster in the snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Data	data	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travels	root
2	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 faster	advmod
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 travels	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 snow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snow	det
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travels	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	present				the snow		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in snow=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cold air helps keep the servers cool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 air	amod
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helps	nsubj
3	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 helps	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 servers	det
6	servers	server	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cool	nsubj
7	cool	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	help	present	Cold air	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	keep	infinitive	Cold air not said here	tree rules
3	cool	present	the servers	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Iceland has no internet laws at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 laws	det
4	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laws	compound
5	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 laws	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Iceland	no internet laws		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Patient

Option 4

Servers only work properly on ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Servers	server	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 work	advmod
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	properly	properly	ADV	_	3 work	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 ice	case
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Servers					on ice; properly property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on ice=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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